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Romans 7:7-12

The Law and Sin

7 What then should we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet, if it had not been for the law, I would not have known sin. I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, You shall not covet.
8But sin, seizing an opportunity in the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness. Apart from the law sin lies dead.
9I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin revived
10and I died, and the very commandment that promised life proved to be death to me.
11For sin, seizing an opportunity in the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me.
12So the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and just and good.